Experimental – Past Concerts
Cornish Pivot Convocation: Fay Victor
Thursday, October 18, 2018 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Vocalist, composer, and lyricist Fay Victor joins the Cornish Music Department for a conversation about life as a musician.
Free
Samantha Boshnack: Seismic Belt
Friday, October 12, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Royal Room, Seattle, WA, United States
An exploration of seismic activity along the Ring of Fire through musical composition, experimenting with the friction of geographic shifts to create a new harmonic topography.
$20 / $18 / $10
Wayward Music Series: The Improvised Quartets Project
Saturday, September 29, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Spontaneous, unrehearsed musical exploration where anything can happen!
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Cilla Vee Life Arts – Psychic Bandwidth
Friday, September 28, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Improvised collaborations of sound, movement, spoken word, performative drawing, and other performance art test the psychic bandwidth of artists and audience alike.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Lou Mallozzi + Gyre
Saturday, September 22, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Experiments in sound that take the form of installations, fixed media works, and improvised music with non-standard configurations of analog and digital electronics.
$5-$15 donation
Emerald City Music: Four Seasons
Saturday, September 15, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Olympia, WA, United States
Tartini/Kreisler – Devil’s Trill
Wiancko – American Haiku
Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
Piazzolla – Four Seasons
Wiancko – American Haiku
Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
Piazzolla – Four Seasons
$28–$43 ($10 students)
Wayward Music Series: Lost Chocolate Lab & Possibly Possible
Friday, September 14, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Solo guitar atmospheric improvisations that weave threads against a projected backdrop of visuals and ambient, shoegazy walls of sound alongside top-down videos.
$5-$15 donation
Emerald City Music: Four Seasons
Friday, September 14, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 11:00pm (PDT)
415 Westlake, Seattle, WA, United States
Tartini/Kreisler – Devil’s Trill
Wiancko – American Haiku
Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
Piazzolla – Four Seasons
Wiancko – American Haiku
Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
Piazzolla – Four Seasons
$45 ($10 students)
Wayward Music Series: Dr. Kelsey ‘Cacophonie’ Tamayo
Saturday, September 8, 2018 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Original compositions by an ex-classical musician who likes to hit things, strum things, and, in general, make noise.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
Thursday, September 6, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An array of new electronic music with violin featuring composers such as Jaffe, Basica, Young, Jette, Lortie, Paranosic, and Mitrano.
$5-$15 donation
CHA at Racer Sessions
Sunday, September 2, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
Cafe Racer, Seattle, WA, United States
Spontaneous, hyper-contemporary creations for multi-disciplinary trio in a beloved Seattle venue.
Free
Wayward Music Series: Tom Varner & Friends – End of Summer Sound Vespers
Thursday, August 30, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Magical sounds settings of field recordings, mixed brass, and percussion. You might hear some gorgeous muted brass long tones meeting up with crackling ice, insects, or sounds of a totally unknown origin!
$5-$15 donation
Kin of the Moon: Public Radiation
Thursday, August 30, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA, United States
Audience participation sonic rituals. Bring instruments, toys, your voice, a walking stick ... anything to summon the sound waves!
$5-$20 sliding scale cash donation
Wayward Music Series: Radon Daughters & Guests
Friday, August 24, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A free improvised sound collaboration with Butoh while exploring the interaction of sound, movement, and light without expectation.
$5-$15 donation
Eye Music CD Release Concert
Friday, August 24, 2018 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An ensemble who specializes in the interpretation of graphic and text scores, performing Ichiyanagi's Sapporo, which mixes sustained tones with sharply attacked sounds.
Free
Wayward Music Series: Plancklength, Morher, & Noel Kennon
Thursday, August 23, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
A night of original electroacoustic works presented in a six-channel surround sound.
$5-$15 donation
The Core Ensemble: Don Giovanni Opening Night & Gala
Monday, August 20, 2018 @ 6:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
12 Ave Arts, Seattle, WA, United States
#TimesUp for Don Giovanni, but not for this classic opera! Mozart meets the #MeToo movement in The Core Ensemble’s adaption of Don Giovanni.
$50
Wayward Music Series: Karl Fousek & Michael Masaru Flora
Friday, August 17, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Music working within the intersections of art, science, music, and mathematics with sonorities of modular synthesis and custom audio processing software.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Doug Theriault (Portland) & RM Francis
Saturday, August 11, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Live cut-up guitar improvisations using custom-made electronics and innovative approaches to computer-generated sound.
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Lea Bertucci & Chloe Alexandra Thompson
Friday, July 27, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Works of extreme experimentation – one artist performing saxophone and tapes, the other performing using Pure Data, Arduino, hardware, and voice.
$5-$15 donation